Missing Oxford comma costs dairy $five million

A Maine dairy has settled a lawsuit over an time beyond regulation dispute that used to be the topic of a ruling hinging at the loss of an Oxford comma in state code, USA Today reported Thursday.

Court information display Oakhurst Dairy paid a $five million agreement in a 2014 lawsuit filed by means of its drivers who had been in quest of greater than $10 million for lacking time beyond regulation pay on account of a lacking Oxford comma in Maine’s time beyond regulation regulation, the paper reported.

The swimsuit involved an exemption from Maine’s time beyond regulation regulation that claims it does no longer follow to “canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing, packing for shipment or distribution of” meals.

The war of words stemmed from the truth there’s no Oxford, or serial, comma within the “packing for shipment or distribution” section. The drivers stated the phrases referred to the job of packing and transport, however they don’t do any packing, the newspaper reported.